Political Autonomy and Divided Societies [electronic resource] : Imagining Democratic Alternatives in Complex Settings /
Gagnon, Alain-G.author.
Keating, Michael.author.
An all star cast of academic experts offer an important and timely analysis of the pursuit of autonomy. They argue that it is key to move beyond the primarily normative debate about the rights or wrongs of autonomous regions on the basis of cultural concerns, instead focusing on understanding what makes autonomy function successfully.
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on Editors and Contributors; 1 Introduction; Part I: Conceptual Approaches; 2 Rethinking Territorial Autonomy; 3 Autonomy, Boundaries and Trust: Preliminary Remarks; 4 Reconciling Autonomy, Community and Empowerment: The Difficult Birth of a Diversity School in the Western World; 5 Sub-State Governance through Territorial Autonomy: On the Relationship between Autonomy and Federalism; Part II Case Studies; 6 Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe and Territorial Autonomy: Are They Really Incompatible?
7 Seeking New Autonomies: State Rescaling, Reterritorialization and Minority Identities in AtlanticCanada8 Recrafting Sovereignty: Lessons from Small Island Autonomies?; 9 Insularity and Autonomy: From a Misleading Equation to a New Typology; 10 The Elusive Autonomy of Canada's Francophone Minority Communities; 11 Autonomy and Ethnic Diversity: The Case of Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in China; 12 Regions and Territorial Autonomy in Southeastern Europe; 13 Autonomy and Nationalist Demands in Southeast Asia
14 Catalan Autonomy-Building Process in Immigration Policy: Conceptual, Institutional and Normative Dimensions15 Conclusions; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
An all star cast of academic experts offer an important and timely analysis of the pursuit of autonomy. They argue that it is key to move beyond the primarily normative debate about the rights or wrongs of autonomous regions on the basis of cultural concerns, instead focusing on understanding what makes autonomy function successfully.
Comparative politics.
Political science.
United States—Politics and government.
Political theory.
Comparative Politics.
Political Science.
US Politics.
Political Theory.